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Judge — February 3, 1900 — page 1: what you’re looking at
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This 1900 political cartoon by Grant Hamilton criticizes Senator Beveridge of Indiana (identified in the quote attribution). The central image shows an explosion labeled "expansion beverage" occurring in what appears to be the Senate chamber, with figures blown back by the blast. The satire mocks Beveridge's support for American imperial expansion—a major political debate of 1900. The explosion metaphor suggests his expansionist rhetoric is dangerous and destabilizing. The quote above references accusations that expansion supporters fired upon American soldiers, comparing them unfavorably to Revolutionary War patriots. The "thirty cents" reference in the caption likely alludes to economic costs or concerns about expansion policy. Hamilton's cartoon presents expansion advocacy as reckless political extremism that threatens American institutions and values.
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VOL.38 NO.955 ‘FEBRUARY 3 1900 PRICE 10 CENTS EmTEReD AT THe Post Crmce AT Mew Yoon as Secono Cass Marten. CoprmenT 1900 ev uses Conmeny. Tire Reosereece as A Tanne Mane “Had Aguinaldo not understood that in America— even in the American congress, even here in the senate— he and his cause were supported; had he not known that it was proclaimed on the stump and in the press of a fac- tion in the United States that every shot his misguided followers fired into the breasts of American soldiers was like the volleys fired by Washington's men against the soldiers of King George, his insurrection would have dis- solved before it entirely crystallized.""— From a speech by Beveridge of Indiana in the United States senate, January gth, 1900, RRB WRMSE TON — COPYRIGHT 1900 BY JUDGE COMPANY OF NEW YORK: ‘Sackett Witheles Lith & Pig (o.Kew York THE EXPANSION BEVERAGE THAT MADE SENATOR HOAR LOOK LIKE THIRTY CENTS. comicbooks.com